West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-03-10

still breeze from our gaT Now that she
has passed, and the sun falls fun on her
canvass, she seems like great bank of
snow floating up the river.
Nearly everybody is tired Of watching
her and many have gone into the cabins
/ TO avoid the wind which is growing
| chilly, and others are composing them
/ selves in twos and thruCs about the deck.
| when a new and more thrilling episode
calls them all TO their feet again Dun
ham and two men come tearing up the
staircas TO the quartcr-dcck The bell
tinkles, and the paddles stop.
Man overheard r is the cry. Every
one rushes 90 the stern every one scans
the boiling current There. | see him :"
| cries one "Hc's trcading waterw cries
another. Everybody can see him now
but by this time the tremendous mo
mentum Of the vessel has left him a little
| speck quarter of mile behind. Ii takes
an age TO lower the boat Finally il is
oh-Dunham I'm the stern and the sturdy
sailors bending the ash dangerously "Can
ne hold out "Oh.yc cam you see him2
Hes treadng water. no, he's floating"
Anyhow, hc keeps up buvcly" "How
slow the boat goes .' ''Mhy don't they
pullT In fact, the boat was cutting the
Z.
ship involuntarily bent and strained. ms
though they could help i'm that way Tho
boat nears the floating object. now only "A
speck in the distance 4 joyful murmur
goes up from the ship. "lIc's saved :"
Oh, those strong mcuw But Dmham
sheers the boat around and picks up only
a hat and holds it high i'm the air The
owner had long since sunk. BY the time
the tired crew were taken on board and
the vessel under headway il was dark.
/ They made Astoria 10y midnight, and lay
TO alongside the wharf
The wind frcshcncd during the nipht
and by morning a heavy gale filled with
salt spray, was driving in directly from
/ the sea. The pilot reported that il would
| be impossible to cross the bar in such "A
/ blow. So they waited. Dunhams pre-
| sentiment Of bad luck had been strength
/ cncd by the loss of the man from the
ship, and he was more nervous and gloomy
\ than when he left home So lac took his
| boy and went ashore He went To the
/ house Of a friend and left Joey there.
/ with orders TO return to Portland by the
/ first steamer that should 90 up lie also
wrote letter TO his wifc-a little longer
/ than usual almost two pages and little
more atIectionatc than usual lie excused
\ himself for writing 10y telling her that
/ the bar was so bad they couldn't cross.
/ and IT was little too dull 10 STAY there
doing nothing.
BY ten o'clock the squall had abatcd
and by noon the pilot said ne thought nc
| could get over the bar bv taking the
north channel. While the frcmcn were
/ getting up steam, Dunham ran over to
his friends house lit was only "a few
/ steps and badc Joey good bye. and told
him TO be "a good boy and mind his
mother, and gave him sundry other items
Of good advice which ] fear the Young
scapcgracc did not attend to closely. be
ing engaged in the vcr, amusing game Of
| scc-saw with the little girl of the house.
by three o'clock the ship was fairly
under way again. by five, she was safely
over the bar, and had put her pilot
| aboard steamer which was waiting ON
/ the outside to enter The captain. having
| been up all the previous night went TO
ms cabin and turned n for the night.
! The passengers were all either sca-sick or
/ chilled by the cold wind and had zone
10 their rooms and into the cabin. The
/ whcclman, 10y orders from Dunbam
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